Writer (b. 20 June 1885, İstanbul – d. 7 March 1987, İstanbul). She is
the grandchild of Osman Paşa of Hungary who took refuge in the Ottoman State
during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution and son of the poet Nigâr Hanım. After he
graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1903. With the state scholarship, he
went to France in order to be educated in agriculture. When he returned to
Turkey, he worked as a teacher at Halkalı Agricultural School. He didn’t go to
the Agriculture Directorate of Rumelia and Anatolia to where he had been
appointed because he didn’t wish to leave İstanbul. He worked at the
Administration of General Debts. He worked as deputy manager and lecture
supervisor at Galatasaray High School. He left this school when Tevfik Fikret
left.
He was sent to Austria to accompany Şehzade Ömer Faruk Efendi, son of
Abdülmecit Efendi during his education (1910). Five years later, he returned to
İstanbul on the outbreak of World War I. He married Hatice Hanım, who was of
Italian origin, in Vienna where he had been appointed as attaché. On the
accession of Abdülmecit Efendi, he returned from Vienna and became private
clerk to the Sultan. When the caliphate was abolished and the members of royal
family were exiled abroad, he accompanied them to Switzerland. When he returned
to Turkey, he served as a teacher at Robert College. He is buried in the family
graveyard in Rumelihisarı.
WORKS (Research):
Fikret'in Hayat ve Eseri (Fikret’s Life and Work, 1926),
İnkılap Şairi Tevfik Fikret'in İzleri (Traces of The Poet of Revolution,
Tevfik Fikret, 1942), Nigâr binti Osman: Hayatımın Hikâyesi (Nigar, daughter of
Osman: The Story of My Life, compiled and edited from the diaries of the poet
Nigar Hanım, 1959), Halife İkinci
Abdülmecid (Caliph Abdülmecid II, 1964).
